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Pore Size Analyses of Cement Paste Exposed to External Sulfate Attack and Delayed Ettringite Formation Pore size analyses of cement paste exposed to external sulfate attack and delayed ettringite formation Yushan Gu, Renaud Pierre Martin, Othman Omikrine Metalssi, Teddy Fen Chong, Patrick Dangla To cite this version: Yushan Gu, Renaud Pierre Martin, Othman Omikrine Metalssi, Teddy Fen Chong, Patrick Dangla. Pore size analyses of cement paste exposed to external sulfate attack and delayed ettringite formation. Cement and Concrete Research, Elsevier, 2019, 123, 10.1016/j.cemconres.2019.05.011. hal-02466886 HAL Id: hal-02466886 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02466886 Submitted on 25 May 2021 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Version of Record: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0008884619300122 Manuscript_d9602fafe23ef434a0285304735d14e6 Pore size analyses of cement paste exposed to external sulfate attack and delayed ettringite formation Yushan GUa, Renaud-Pierre MARTINb, Othman OMIKRINE METALSSIa, Teddy FEN-CHONGa, Patrick DANGLAc,∗ aUniversit´eParis-Est, MAST, FM2D, IFSTTAR, F-77447 Marne-la-Valle, France bUniversit´eParis-Est, MAST, EMGCU, IFSTTAR, F-77447 Marne-la-Valle, France cUniversit´eParis-Est, Laboratoire Navier (UMR 8205), CNRS, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, IFSTTAR, F-77455 Marne-la-Vall´ee,France Abstract Experimental studies on cement paste exposed to external sulfate attack (ESA), delayed ettringite formation (DEF), and the coupling effect of both reactions are presented in this paper. The objective is to compare the degraded state of specimens, the length and mass variations, and the pore size distribution (PSD) obtained by mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP) of cement paste submitted to these different exposure conditions. By comparing the PSD of specimens before and after the sulfate attacks, a global expansion mechanism is proposed: ettringite first precipitates in the biggest pores without inducing obvious expan- sion, and then penetrates into capillary and gel pores leading to an accelerated swelling. In addition, the coupling effect of ESA and DEF is found to be the most damaging expansion, which raises a high durability problem for cement- based materials. Keywords: Sulfate attacks, ESA, DEF, Coupling effect of ESA and DEF, cement pastes, pore size distribution, ettringite formation. ∗Corresponding author Email addresses: [email protected] (Yushan GU), [email protected] (Renaud-Pierre MARTIN), [email protected] (Othman OMIKRINE METALSSI), [email protected] (Teddy FEN-CHONG), [email protected] (Patrick DANGLA) Preprint submitted to Journal of LATEX Templates April 13, 2019 © 2019 published by Elsevier. This manuscript is made available under the Elsevier user license https://www.elsevier.com/open-access/userlicense/1.0/ 1. Introduction Sulfate ions, commonly present in sulfate-containing environments (marine environment or groundwater) or construction materials, are critical agents in the engineering field. The origin of sulfate ions leads to a distinction between Exter- 5 nal Sulfate Attack (ESA) and Internal Sulfate Attack (ISA). Delayed Ettringite Formation (DEF), as a form of ISA, is observed in cementitious materials which experienced elevated temperatures during curing, either from a heating treat- ment or from an internal high temperature due to the heat released by hydration in massive concrete. 10 Separate studies intending to understand the damage mechanisms of ESA and DEF have been reported in the literature. In the case of ESA, ettringite pre- cipitates from sodium sulfate solution, forming three distinct zones [1]: a cracked and deteriorated surface zone, followed by a zone of ettringite deposited in the paste, and an interiorly cracked zone which is chemically unaltered. A tensile 15 force is created in the last zone due to the formation of expansive products in the second zone, which leads to cracks in the interior of the mortar. In the former two degraded zones, ettringite is supposed to be formed in large pores which does not lead to an expansion, and then precipitated in smaller pores which contributes to expansions, until all the free aluminates are consumed [2]. Then, 20 the sulfate concentration increases to a critical level which provides a driving force for the precipitation of ettringite crystals in small pores within the C-S-H. The onset of the expansion starts when the material cannot resist the pressure resulting from the interaction between the ettringite and the surrounding ma- trix of cement paste, namely the crystallization pressure [2, 3]. The mechanism 25 proposed in [1] is influenced by surface leaching in a limited way since the ex- ternal solution (with a pH lower than the one of the cementitious material) is not renewed during the test [4]. In the field, the surface leaching due to the external low pH condition is much higher and has a significant influence on the degradation process. In the case of DEF, a high temperature above about 65 ◦ 30 C can decompose the primary ettringite in hydrated calcium monosulphoa- 2 luminate, releasing sulfates to the pore solution [5, 6, 7]. Part of sulfate and aluminate ions may be adsorbed on C-S-H [8, 9], which will be released later to trigger ettringite crystallization at ambient temperature. Therefore, the ettrin- gite is postulated to initially occur in C-S-H gel and then in cracks and voids 35 [8]. Ettringite crystallization in the C-S-H gel is believed to be the reason for expansion of the paste. This idea is further confirmed by Yang [10]. DEF not only occurs in preheated cementitious materials, but also in mas- sive concrete structures [11, 12]. All concretes generate heat as cements hydrate. In thin items, the hydration heat dissipates almost as quickly as it is generated, 40 while heat dissipates more slowly if it is generated in mass concrete. Therefore, the heat generated by the hydration of cement raises the temperature of con- crete, leading to a significant temperature difference between the interior and the outside surface of the structures. The temperature induced by hydration in mass concrete may reach above 70 ◦C [12], which is high enough to induce 45 DEF. If massive concrete structures are buried in a sulfate rich environment, for instance, in the saline soils and sea water which have a complex chemistry including magnesium, sulfate, sodium, chloride and dissolved CO2 species [13], the coupling effect of ESA and DEF may occur. ESA and DEF share some common aspects. The material mix has simi- 50 lar impact on ESA and DEF, for example, the high content of C3A and C3S contributes to the ettringite formation [14, 15]; a higher w/c ratio leads to a higher porosity and a higher permeability: on the one hand the latter leads to a 2− faster ions transportation, such as SO4 ions from external solution under ESA condition, and on the other hand the former eases ettringite accommodation. 55 Moreover, the most common degradation observation of cement-based materials are expansion and cracking. In both situations, the expansion is attributed to the formation of ettringite [16], though the gypsum is considered as the reason of ESA by some authors [17, 18, 19]. However, this hypothesis was not confirmed by the observation of gypsum precipitation after the cracks occur [18, 20]. 60 Furthermore, several hypotheses were proposed to explain the expansion resulting from ettringite formation, including the volume increase theory [21], 3 colloidal expansion theory [22, 23], topochemical reaction theory [24], and the crystallization pressure theory [2, 3, 25] which is more recent and popular. With these similarities, a global expansion mechanism is investigated to explain the 65 behavior of specimens under different sulfate attack conditions. In this paper, with the aim of understanding the expansion mechanism, an experimental study on cement pastes exposed to three different sulfate attack conditions (ESA, DEF, and Coup) will be conducted, including the length and mass measurements, and the variation of PSD before and after sulfate attacks. 70 2. Materials, casting and curing A cement CEM I 52.5 R CE CP2 NF [26] was used, the chemical com- positions of which is presented in [27]. Six sets of small cement paste prisms (2 × 2 × 12 cm3) and one set of big cement paste prisms (11 × 11 × 22 cm3) were fabricated, with a water to cement ratio of 0.55, as shown in Table 1. The 3 75 2 × 2 × 12 cm prisms were subjected to three different sulfate attack conditions (ESA, DEF and the coupling effect of both reactions) and were tested at two states, initial and final states. The initial state is defined as the moment after the 28 days curing, right before exposing the specimens to their respective aging conditions. The final state for the specimens exposed to ESA and ESA+DEF 80 is the time when the specimens are seriously degraded and show an expansion of around 1%. Different to ESA and Coup, the sigmoid expansion curve is the most typical kind in DEF, which includes a latent period, an accelerated in- creasing phase and a plateau part. The final state for DEF is the plateau phase. The 11×11×22 cm3 prism samples were designed to be subjected only to DEF, 85 and were fabricated to characterize the pore size distribution (PSD) at different states: the initial state (after the 28-day curing), the latent period, and two different final states. The former two specimens were fabricated with slightly different fabrication procedures compared to two final specimens. Indeed, spec- imens designed to be tested at initial and latent period were cast with a specific 90 mortar mixer while two final specimens were cast with a 30-liters concrete mixer; 4 moreover, for each set of specimens, a different mixing procedure was followed.
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